Agile Flyer – 04-09-2017

Public Announcement:Scrum Alliance® Announces Partnership with LeSS Company

Denver, CO,— SCRUM ALLIANCE® – The news are finally out and public: On 4/7/2017, Scrum Alliance interim CEO Lisa Hershman, has announced that Scrum Alliance,
most established and influential professional membership organization and certifying body in the Agile community,entered in partnership with LeSS Company to support widespread adoption of Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS).

Applying LeSS Thinking to Basic Scrum“LeSS Hexagon of Values”

As per Scrum Guide, “…Scrum is a framework for developing and sustaining complex products…
It [Scrum] is lightweight, easy to understand and difficult to master”.
The guide talks about basic Scrum, or Scrum by one cross-functional team that works for only one Product Owner, on one single product.
The guide also mentions situations when multiple Scrum teams must work on the same product backlog and share the same Definition of Done (DoD) – an example of scrum scaling.

Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS), on the other hand, is a product development framework that extends Scrum with scaling rules and guidelines, without losing the original purposes of Scrum.…”.
Some of the hallmarks of LeSS are:

It is the framework that requires organizational de-scaling (simplification), to scale basic Scrum

It is the framework that strongly relies on effectiveness of organizational design and system dynamics of multiple organizational layers, departments and spheres of control

It is not merely a group of teams doing their own Scrum, while working for different product owners and supporting different products.
Rather, it is a group of teams (2-8) that works together, synchronously, on the same product and serves the same product owner.

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Unspoken Agile Topics

This paper, originally written in February 2013, brings to light some of the least-discussed topics and consequences of “broadband agilization” that currently take place in the industry.
The materials of this paper are subdivided into two general sections:

The first section describes certain impacts that Agile has on individuals and their personal career advancements.

The second section describes organizational-level Agile impacts that pertain more to client companies that undergo Agile transformation,
as well as service-providing vendor companies that deliver Agile-transforming expertise to their respective clients.

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Fresh Collection of Ad-hoc Agile References:

I continuously collect articles and publications that come from everywhere: colleagues, coaches and trainers, clients, occasional encounters.
I keep a comprehensive list of resources here, categorized by themes.
Some of my most recent samples from the collection are below:

(Originally published by Lv Yi on June 21, 2019) In this article, we shall look at a variant of the functional team and component team structures - a feature group. We shall revisit known dynamics of the functional and component teams, and see what’s similar and different between them and a feature group in terms […]